The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-02-11
WISCONSIN LEGISLATURE.

oENATE-%A Dill was introduced On bHU ISL 10
exempt from taxation the property of Catholic
Knights and other benevolent societies.
AssEMBLY-A Joint resolution was offered to
amend the constitution so as to prohibit MEM
bers OF the Legislature and courts of record from
receiving free railroad transportation. a res
olution was adopted making February is the last
day for the introduction of new business. Bills
were introduced: Providing that any architect
who devises plans for a factory, hotel, school,
etc, and fails to include tire-escapes and out
ward-swinging doors shall be deemed guilty of
misdemeanor and fined from SO to 500; also,
that any one who constructs such buildings
without such safeguards shall be fned s 90; re-
quiring that all suits of libel be brought within
two years: authorizing town boards to suppress
or license pool or billiard tables; filming any one
S5e who enters agricultural fairgrounds during
exhibitions by stealth; extending the powers of
the State Veterinarian, and to afford better
safeguards against disease among beasts; pro-
viding that all roads travelled by the public for
ten years shall be regarded as legal highways.
SENATE-Bills were introduced on the I'd:
Exempting public libraries from taxation;
providing for the temporary relief of INDECENT
ex-Union veterans without forcing them to go
to the poor-house; increasing the age of con-
sent from ten to twelve years; providing that
earnings shall not be exempt from seizure for
rent of residence; making the president Of
the State University member of the Board Of
Regents
AsSEMBLY-Bills were introduced: Prohibit
ing nonresident aliens from holding more than
800 acres of land in the State; for the punish
ment of persons killing birds or robbing nests;
for the severe punishment of per-
sons keeping houses of ill-fame; max
ing it a misdemeanor to sell, give away, dis
tribute or exhibit obscene literature or illus
trations; prohibiting persons or corporations
from hiring such as Pinkerton men to Go police
duty providing that any person who shall entice
persons under eighteen years of age away
from home shall be punished by fine not to ex.
coed $1,000 and imprisonment not to exceed
three years; making it misdemeanor to kill
wild birds or rob their nests.
SENATE-A memorial to Congress was passed
on the 3D. asking the Government to pay the
damages sustained by land owners along Fox
river by reason of Fox and Wisconsin river i'm
provement. A bill was passed holding policy
holders of insurance companies responsible as
stockholders till the company's assets reach
So, 900, and thereafter to relieve them of all
such responsibility. Bills We're introduced per-
uniting parties in litigation to proceed to trial,
if the jury panel should lack man or two by
reason of illness or other causes, and limiting
damages collectable for injuries received on
highways to $1,000
AsSEMBLY-Bills were introduced: TO ap-
propriate $4,000 to the Wisconsin Industrial
School for Girls for the purpose of making
permanent improvements; providing that any
city. village or town in Rock County shall pay
into the county treasury for the benefit of the
poor fund, for each license to sell intoxicating
drinks, the sum of $50. A resolution was
adopted for submission to the people of a con-
stftutional amendment giving the Legislature
full power to regulate elections and the powers
and the salary of State educational officers.
George F. Tate (Dem.) from Richland County,
was seated, though the Assembly reserves the
privilege to seat Isaac Mccain (Rep.), if the
latter can prove his right to the seat. A me-
mortal was adopted asking Congress to pass
the bill appropriating $4,000 to each State an
nually for the maintenance of agricultural sta
lions. A bill was reported adversely giving
married women the same privileges as witnesses
as unmarried women.
SENATE-Bills were introduced on the 9TH /:
Providing for the incorporation Of villages sit
uated in two towns; providing for three game
districts in the State, with a warden for EACH
and making it unlawful for any one to ship out
of the State any fish less than one-half pound
in weight, and prohibiting any one from keeping
in his possession over one hundred pounds of
such fish; to punish drunkenness by a fine of
$40 for the first offense and from $40 to $50 for
the second and third ofense, or by imprison-
ment from Is to 100 days. Mr.. Ginty offered a
memorial to Congress asking for an amend
ment to the Federal constitution to grant suf-
frage to women. Adjourned to the 9TH.
AssEMBLY-Isaac Mccain (Rep) filed his
reasons for contesting the seat of George F.
Tate Dem.), and the Committee on Privileges
and Elections was given authority to proceed
with the investigation, but it must report by
February 26. Bills were introduced: Requiring
thorough destruction of noxious weeds; pro-
hibiting the killing of deer in Florence County,,
except for food; permitting husband ard wife
to testify against each other in civil actions; to
incorporate the city of Pittsville. Wood County;
to create the County OF Mills out of the west
half of Ashland County, with Hurley as the
| county-seat. Adjourned to the nth.
SENATE-Met on the evening of the 18th. A
bill appropriating -, 100 annually for the com
ing two years to the Wisconsin Industrial AS
sociation of Racine was introduced. The fol
lowing appointments were received from the
Governor: Normal School Regents, w. E. An
derson. of Milwaukee; ]. H. Evans, of Platte
vile; G.. Hutchins, of Fond du Lac. Member of
the State Board of Health, Dr. S. G. johnson,
of Hudson.
ASSEMBLY-Bil1s were introduced: To raise
the age of consent from ten TO fifteen years;
| to require railroad companies to ship livestock
in mixed cars; TO make five months school in
districts with $4,000 and under in assessable
property sufficient to draw public money; to
require annual meetings of all school districts
to be held on the first Monday in July; to make
insanity of FIVE years standing a cause for
divorce; to make it imprsonable by from one
to ten years to fraudulently dispose of prom
issory notes or other evidences of debt to
make any one liable to punishment for perjury
who gives false statements in regard to prop
erty to the tax assessor.